#PRESIDENTS OF INDIA SO FAR
Name
Portrait
Took office
Left office
Vice President
Notes
Rajendra Prasad
(18841963)
26 January 1950
13 May 1962
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(18881975)
13 May 1962 13 May 1967
Zakir Hussain
(18971969)
13 May 1967
3 May 1969
Varahagiri Venkata Giri *
(18941980)
3 May 1969
20 July 1969
1952 election page & 1957 election page Prasad was the first President of independent India from Bihar.[7][8] He Sarvepalli was also an Radhakrishnan independence activist of the Indian Independence Movement.[9] Prasad was the only president to serve for two terms in office.[4] 1962 election page Radhakrishnan was a prominent philosopher, writer, a Knight of the Realm and also held the position of vice Zakir Hussain chancellor of the Andhra University and Banaras Hindu University.[10] He was also made a Knight of the Golden Army of Angels by Pope Paul VI.[11] 1967 election page Hussain was vice chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim Varahagiri University and a Venkata Giri recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Bharat Ratna.[12] He died before his term of office was ended. Giri was appointed as acting president following the death of Hussain.[13] He resigned in a few months to take part in the presidential elections.[5]
Name
Portrait
Took office
Left office
Vice President
Notes
Muhammad Hidayatullah *
(19051992)
20 July 1969
Varahagiri Venkata 4 Giri
(18941980)
24 August 1969
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
(19051977)
24 August 1974
Basappa Danappa Jatti *
(19122002)
11 February 1977
Hidayatullah served as the Chief Justice of India, and was a recipient of the Order 24 August of the British 1969 Empire.[14] He served as acting president until the election of Giri as the President of India. 1969 election page Giri is the only person to have served as both an acting president and president of India. 24 August Gopal Swarup He was a recipient of 1974 Pathak the Bharat Ratna, and has functioned as Indian Minister of Labour and High Commissioner to Ceylon (Sri Lanka).[15] 1974 election page Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed served as a Minister before being elected as president. 11 February Basappa He died in 1977 1977 Danappa Jatti before his term of office ended, and was the second Indian president to have died during a term of office.[16] Jatti was the vice president of India during Ahmed's term of office, and was sworn in as acting 25 July 1977 president upon Ahmed's death. He earlier functioned as the Chief Minister for the State of Mysore.[16][17]
Name
Portrait
Took office
Left office
Vice President
Notes 1977 election page [Link] was the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State. Reddy was the only Member of Parliament from the Janata Party to get elected from Andhra Pradesh.[18] He was unanimously elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha on 26 March 1977 and relinquished this office on 13 July 1977 to become the 6th President of India. 1982 election page In March 1972, Singh assumed the position of chief Minister of Punjab, and in 1980, he became Union Home Minister.[19] 1987 election page In 1942, Venkataraman was jailed by the British for his involvement in the India's independence movement.[20] After his release, he was elected to independent Indias Provisional Parliament as a member of the Congress Party in 1950 and eventually joined the central government, where he first served as Minister of Finance and Industry and later as Minister of Defence.[21]
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
(19131996)
25 July 1977
25 July 1982
Muhammad Hidayatullah
Giani Zail Singh
(19161994)
25 July 1982
25 July 1987
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
(19102009)
25 July 1987
25 July 1992
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Name
Portrait
Took office
Left office
Vice President
Notes 1992 election page Sharma was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, and the Indian Minister for Communications. He has also served as the governor of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Maharashtra.[22] 1997 election page Narayanan served as India's ambassador to Thailand, Turkey, China and United States of America. He received doctorates in Science and Law and was also a chancellor in several universities.[23] He was also the vicechancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University.[24] 2002 election page Kalam, is a scientist who played a leading role in the development of India's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs.[25] He also received the Bharat Ratna. Kalam was affectionately known as the People's President.[26][27][28] 2007 election page Patil is the first woman to become the President of India. She was also the first female Governor of Rajasthan.[29][30]
Shankar Dayal Sharma
(19181999)
25 July 1992
25 July 1997
Kocheril Raman Narayanan
10
Kocheril Raman Narayanan
(19202005)
25 July 1997
25 July 2002
Krishan Kant
11
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(1931alive)
25 July 2002
25 July 2007
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
12
Pratibha Patil
(1934till date)
25 July 2007
Incumbent
Mohammad Hamid Ansari